Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...headlines topped reports of a furious oration by Pan-German Deputy Deutsch: "Austrians!! Today the Italians have erected at Bolzano, overlooking our frontier, a monument and an inscription which reads: Here Are The Frontiers Of Our Fatherland . . , From Here We Have Driven The Barbarian* Language, Laws and Arts...
...obscure little Maribor, on the Jugoslav frontier lives Schoolteacher Polsjchak. Word went round that he knew strange things; that he had studied tuberculosis and cancer; that he had even cured neighbor Kretschnik's wife who was about to die of cancer, and that other one, old man Melchnikoff, who had a burning in his side like fire...
Frederick Austin Ogg, historian ("frontier" school...
...although Greek King Constantine was brother-in-law to All Highest Kaiser Wilhelm. At the Peace Conference it was in large measure due to the peculiar, enticing charm of M. Venizelos that the Allies were persuaded to increase the territory of Greece by 3,200 miles and extend her frontier westward to within 20 miles of Constantinople. Such a man is most potentially dangerous when he seems to be doing nothing of importance. Therefore, few Greeks were really surprised, last week, when Eleutherios Venizelos journeyed from Crete to Athens and announced with quiet firmness: "I am compelled to recall...
...Barrymore an opportunity to put on the grease paints and a beard, to look horribly woebegone. The Red Revolution releases him from prison and he becomes a peasant dictator. He refuses to be a party to the execution of the haughty daughter, runs away with her to the Austrian frontier, while the audience discovers that she loved him all along. ... All of which goes to show that Mr. Barrymore's stage reputation is being stunted by his film capers. Louis Wolheim, famed in the play, What Price Glory, also figures in Tempest as a fun-loving Russian sergeant...